PP's New Adventure (5) - Filing & Moving Forward

[asitis]

It's worse than that. When couples endure stressful relations for a period of time their hypocampuses actually shrink. The hypocamus is central to the creation of memories in the human brain. I lot of couple arguments can be attributed to the hypocampus being effectively crippled by stress responses. You've heard the couples argue, you did this, no I did not. Both are entirely certain that their version of events is absolutely, positively correct. One or both may be faulty. The one member could be remembering something that happened the day before the exchange in question. Or both could be piecing a little bit of this and a little bit of that together.

It is one of the reasons why arguing with a spouse about what happened is usually not a good idea. Attend to the emotional needs being expressed instead.

BTW, London cabbies have very large hypocampuses. I can't remember whether it is the result of their having to memorize the map of London or it is self-selection. Odd trivia of the day.